Learning India’s Martial Art of Kalarippayattu: Unsettled Ecologies of Gender, Class, Culture, and Ethnicity

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  • Sara K. Schneider National-Louis University

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https://doi.org/10.18002/rama.v5i2.110

Keywords:

Intercultural relationships, teacher-student relationship, guru, disciple, physical contact, verbal contact

Abstract

Rooted in the author’s field experience studying the traditional South Indian martial art kalarippayattu, this article examines the complexities of communication, including the use of touch as a teaching tool, in an intercultural teacher-student relationship, and surfaces how gender, culture, and class impacted learning in this embodied art form.

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2012-07-12

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Schneider, S. K. (2012). Learning India’s Martial Art of Kalarippayattu: Unsettled Ecologies of Gender, Class, Culture, and Ethnicity. Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas, 5(2), 45–62. https://doi.org/10.18002/rama.v5i2.110

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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2010)

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